KURDISTAN/SYRIA: Anarchists join struggle against ISIS in Kobane

The city of Kobane has been under attack by Daesh (ISIS) fascists for a number of days leading to a mass exodus of Kurds from the city. But many Kurds are now returning to fight and defend the city despite being pushed back at the border by Turkish forces. Inside the border, Kurdish forces along with the Free Syrian Army continue to fight against Daesh.


Turkish and Syrian Kurds tear down the border fence to cross into Kobane in neighboring Syria. Photo:AFP
Turkish and Syrian Kurds tear down the border fence to cross into Kobane in neighboring Syria. Photo:AFP




Among those going to support and defend the city have been comrades from the Turkish anarchist group DAF (Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet/Revolutionary Anarchist Action).


comrades from DAF join the struggle to defend Kobane
comrades from DAF join the struggle to defend Kobane





Below is a Statement from Revolutionary Anarchist Action- Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet:
IN SHINGAL, KOBANE AND ALL ROJAVA, ISIS IS DEHAK AND PEOPLE ARE KAWA
In Kurdistan, people are fighting against ISIS, “the procreated violence” given birth by capitalism and the states that start wars for their own benefits. ISIS, subcontractor of the states that pursue income strategies on the region, is attacking people while yelling “islamic state!” and “holy war, jihad!”. People are suffering from hunger and thirst, getting ill, getting injured; migrating and dying. They are still fighting in that struggle for existence. People are fighting not for the schemes and strategies around meeting tables, not for income, but for their freedom.
As freedom is to exist in danger of being non existant. As freedom is to live. Like the fight of Kawa, defending the life by resisting against Dehaks.
And now, USA, EU, Turkey; all the states that have expectations of income from the region, are establishing coalitions against ISIS, the “procreated violence” which in reality isn’t a disturbance to them at all. The ones who don’t like their position in the coalition start scheming, relations are getting tense and loose, and then tense again, while all the sides are changing their speech from dawn to dusk and acting inconsistent.
After all, this is the most obvious feature of any state. States can’t be expected to stand straight because states are spineless. Spineless states whose only expectation is income, would be founding ISIS yesterday, repenting it today and recognizing the islamic state tomorrow. And people will always be fighting for their future and their freedom, just like in the past.
Salutations to everyone who fight and defend the life in Rojava.
All the plots of states and capitalism will be destroyed, procreated violence will be extinguished, ISIS will lose against the freedom fighters and the people will be victorous as always. We take our belief in freedom from Kawa that stood against Dehak. And we take our belief from many comrades fighting against Dehaks.
WE ARE ALL KAWA AGAINST DEHAKS.


DAF in Kobane

SYRIA: لا نقبل الاحتلال حليفاً لثورتنا – The Occupation Is Not an Ally to Our Revolution

The Occupation Is Not an Ally to Our Revolution

Syrian women and men have broken the barrier of silence in their revolution against the repressive Assad regime, taking to the streets en masse to demand freedom. The regime faced their revolution with unprecedented brutality, murdering nearly 200,000 people, forcibly disappearing tens of thousands and displacing millions. Yet, the Syrian people clung to their demands for freedom, justice and dignity as the core demands of the revolution.
Since the very beginning, the regime has sought to squelch the liberatory goals of the revolution by portraying itself as a bulwark of resistance against occupation and by promoting religious extremism and planting its seeds among those opposing its criminal and despotic reign, and it was quite easy to find figures resembling the regime in the ranks of the opposition. The rise of fundamentalist movements represented the first success of the regime to smear the revolution and its goals. Three and a half years into the ongoing massacre perpetrated by the Assad regime against the Syrian people, we are recognizing another form of deviation from the goals of the revolution. It manifests itself in the attempts of some Syrian dissidents at striking alliances with Israeli occupation under the pretext of defying Assad’s slaughter and replacing a murderous regime by the collaboration with a murderous occupier.
Cloaked by the guise of toppling the Assad dictatorship, the project propagated by Kamal Labwani and his allies is a profound departure from the goals of the revolution and a cheap violation of the rights of the Palestinian and Syrian people fighting to put an end to oppression and occupation. Such a project only serves to sugarcoat the Israeli occupation that regularly murders Palestinian children in Gaza and throughout Palestine, precisely like the child-murdering Syrian regime.
We believe that freedom, dignity and justice cannot be achieved through allying with Israel which continues to occupy the Golan Heights for 47 years, after expelling most of its indigenous population and demolishing its homes and villages. This is also the very state that has occupied Palestine for 66 years in an ongoing massacre of killing, displacement and home demolitions.
We also reject any attempt to justify collaboration with Israel by claiming the battle against Assad trumps all. After all, “the battle against Israel trumps all” was the very slogan employed by the Assad regime for decades to oppress the Syrian people and dissuade them from calling for their rights.
And as we reject Assad’s rule in Syria in all its bloodshed and deprivation of the basic principles for dignified life, we also reject the similar terrorist actions committed by fundamentalist movements. But we will not accept Israeli occupation, which laid the first foundations for terrorism in the Eastern Mediterranean, as an alternative.
Freedom, dignity and justice cannot be divided nor can we strive for them in Syria while denying them in Palestine.
Revolution is not replacing one criminal with another nor is it the replacement of tyranny with occupation. We Own Our Future revolution is an unrelenting commitment to freedom, dignity and justice.

SYRIA: لا نقبل الاحتلال حليفاً لثورتنا - The Occupation Is Not an Ally to Our Revolution

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